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3 unusual facts about Project Xanadu


Project Xanadu

Ted Nelson published his ideas in his 1974 book Computer Lib/Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines.

In the summer of 1979, Nelson led the latest group of his followers, Roger Gregory, Mark S. Miller and Stuart Greene, to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.


History of hypertext

Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.

Marc Stiegler

Shortly after writing this article, he took over development of Project Xanadu, the hypertext system envisioned by Ted Nelson.

Prediction market

Around 1990 at Project Xanadu, Robin Hanson used the first known corporate prediction market.


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